Quotes About Desolation

Autopsy read: dead of acute peoplelessness.

The world had ended, and I was the only person who knew it. People walked along the streets as if the pavements hadn't all crumbled beneath their feet.

I couldn't distinguish whether I was smelling the clutching sound of misery or hearing the cloying odor of death.

Thrust into this dingy classroom we die like lampless moths locked into the desolation of fluorescent lights and metal desks. Ten minutes until the bell rings. What use is the quadratic formula in our daily lives? Can we use it to unlock the secrets in the hearts of those we love? Five minutes until the bell rings. Cruel Algebra teacher, won't you let us go?

He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the floor.

The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.

Alone. The saddest word in the world.

a deep smothering emptiness

Once they passed a village sacked by the French. Not a building remained intact, not a person was in sight, not an animal still lived.

This town) doesn't look like anything; it isn't anything. Its five tin-roofed huts cling to the skinny tracks of the Uganda Railway like parasites on a vine.

Instead, we feel like ashes, leftovers from a bygone fire, blown aimlessly by the wind. We feel like we're not even important enough to be forgotten, because we were never known in the first place.

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

What is it about featureless wastes that appeals so powerfully to the Anglo-Saxon soul?

I turned off the light and tried to sleep but ended up nursing a sense of loss that seemed heavier than ever.

But the landscape of devastation is still a landscape. There is beauty in ruins.

When she stepped into the shop that evening, she felt an emptiness so vast that she almost couldn't breathe. Everything had drained out of her. "It's exhausting, isn't it?" asked Grandy. "A sadness like this. It's physically exhausting.

The trees had long since dropped their colorful matntles of leaves. The grass had gone dormant and lay dry and beaten down, as if it would never grow again. An air of bleakness hovered everywhere, giving the place a sense of waiting. A good, clean snowfall would change everything.

It was now the stormy equinoctial weather that sounds the wild dirge of autumn, and marches the winter in. I love, and always did, that grand undefinable music, threatening and bewailing, with its strange soul of liberty and desolation.

the perpetual disruptive nature of youth generally. "Desolation," yes, but also a child's sense of immediacy, the capacity to enter into the moment-by-moment flow of life as it unfolds, not trying to make narrative sense of one's situation, and not caring overmuch if the whole setup comes crashing down.

When Lincoln was thirty-two, he wrote, "I am now the most miserable man living.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

Los dos grupos que hasta ayer se mataban se encuentran a mitad de camino en medio de la desolación, entre embudos cenagosos, cadáveres semienterrados y chatarra bélica oxidada. Alemanes e ingleses se contemplan, astrosos, barbudos, sucios, tan parecidos si no fuera por el uniforme, tan humanos, tan distintos de como los presentan las caricaturas de la propaganda.

Lo que cava La sangre corcovea en todos los rincones, en el alma superior, en su orgullo, en los perros con olor a furia. El ser amado convierte la humillación en asombro y vengo aquí para decir que te amo. El domingo del payaso prueba la desolación. La emoción contra la pared espera que la fusilen. Nuestros cuerpos conocen esa pared. Es una atadura del sol que cava y cava.

Sus ojos azules, antaño vivaces, son un campo yermo, sembrado de sal.